I’ve always been a sucker for confort food, and when I saw this recipe for a Polish mushroom and barley soup on Susan’s blog, I immediately hankered after a hot bowl of the rustic looking food. And I’m pretty susceptible to good photo and recipe too.
Happily I’d been making beef stock not long before and had a freezer full of the stuff. So I set about defrosting it and hunting down the pearl barley from the back of the store cupboard. Continue reading
This wasn’t really a jjigae. It was an attempt at recreating the spicy Korean soup, but with no recipe, no fish or meat, and without many of the proper ingredients. And having eaten it all of three times in my life. What could possibly go wrong?
The result turned out better than I feared, but not as good as I’d hoped. And in part, it was all down to me trying to keep it vegetarian. Not sure why I felt the need to do it, other than a perverse and vague feeling that it’s good to be veggie sometimes. Continue reading
Sometimes saturdays can be great. A day out perusing the enormous 6-floor Waterstone’s on Picadilly, followed by a happy stroll through the Japan centre. This yielded some salmon sashimi, udon noodles and a pack of interesting mushrooms (alongside all sorts of other exciting food).
Then, sitting at home watching the way the late afternoon light hits the slate roofs and brick below, and they just glow. Softly at first, but then with increasing strength until gently the light ebbs signalling the onset of dusk.
And right now, dusk means dinner time. Pulling together my goodies I set to work. Continue reading